On July 2, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed a significant victory to New York's home care industry.1 In Abdullayeva v. Attending Home Care Services, the appellate court reversed a lower...

The New York home care industry has faced collapse since a series of New York Appellate Division decisions invalidated NY DOL policy and held that home care attendants working 24-hour shifts who are employed by...

A pair of New York state appellate decisions has serious implications for employers that offer 24-hour home care for clients by ruling that sleep and meal periods must be included in the hourly wages...

As Littler reported in March of 2015, a New York Supreme Court, Kings County Justice found that sleep and meal periods must not be excluded from the hourly wages of a home attendant who does not reside in the home of his or her client...

Reports of identity theft - one of the nation's
fastest growing financial crimes - continue to make
headline news. Articles like "Worker Charged in Hospital File
Thefts" and "Employment Records Prove Ripe
Source for Identity Theft," and "Liability
for Employee Identity Theft is Growing," reflect
that employers are not immune from exposure to this crime.